Sample-book



(No ModeL) J. E. SPEARS.

SAMPLE BOOK.

No. 394,516. Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

JjEl/Me 57 06am? NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J OHN EVARTS SPEARS, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SAM PLE-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,516, dated December11, 1888.

Application filed June 13, 1887. Serial No. 241,100. (No model.)

To all 107L077 it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN EvARTs SPEARs, of Holyoke, county of Hampden,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inSample-Books, of which the follow- 1 ing description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

F other suitable material.

; ing provided with saw-cuts b, and secured to This invention relates toa sample or invoice book, and has for its object to provide a guard atthe back of the book, whereby samples of goods or papers placed betweenthe leaves may be offset, so that when the book is closed the covers ofthe book may lie substantially parallel.

In accordance with my invention the body of the book is made up ofsections, each section being composed of two or more sheets, which arefirst folded to form leaves, the said sheets at their back or foldedside being crimped or made with two substantially narrow folds toconstitute a guard. The guard lies at one side of each section, and willpreferably have inserted between its component folds a re-enforcingstrip or packing, which may be of varying thickness to accommodatevariance in the thickness of the sample of goods or the papers placedbetween the leaves of the sections.

The particular features in which my invention consist-s will be pointedout in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, broken off, of a section made inaccordance with my invention, the guard having a re-enforcing strip orpacking; Fig. 2, an end view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an end view of a sectionwith the re-enforcing strip or packing removed; Fig. 4, a perspective ofa single sheet, and Fig. 5 an end view of a completed book.

The body of the book is made up of sections A, each composed,preferably, of two or more independent sheets. (See Fig. 4.) Each sheetis folded to form leaves a a, and at its back or folded side or edgeeach sheet is crimped or made with two substantially narrow folds,

5 strips or bands, (not shown,) as now commonly practiced inbook-binding, the covers I) b and back If being of any desired material.

Among other uses my improved book may be employed as an invoice-book,and more particularly as a sample-book, the samples of goods beingplaced between the leaves of the book.

\Vhen used as a sample-book, the re-enforcing strip may be employed toadvantage, as it increases the size of the guard, so that samples ofgoods of considerable thickness may be placed in the book, and yet havethe covers I) I) lie substantially parallel; but when the book is usedas an invoice or scrap or file book the re-enforcing strip may beomitted and the guard alone depended upon to separate the sections atthe back of the book to offset the material placed between the leaves,as shown in Fig. 3.

I claim 1. The herein-described sample or invoice book, composed ofindependent sections A, each consisting of a folded sheet provided witha guard integral therewith, formed by folding the said sheet twice uponitself at its folded edge, the guard having a re-enforcing strip orpacking, B, inserted between the outer folds forming the said guard,substantially as described.

2. The herein-described sample or invoice book, composed of independentsections A, each made of a plurality of independent adjacent foldedsheets A, provided with substantially narrow outwardly-turned folds a aat the folded edge of the said sheets, the said narrow folds, when thesheets are put together to form a section, forming a guard, for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. EVARTS SPEARS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS VAN RIPER, CHARLES A. BoWLEs.

